#BBC Control Electronics

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UK 1987

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The Citizen Lab says it informed officials that suspected Pegasus spyware was discovered in 2020 and 2021, with the Downing Street incident linked to operators in the UAE. Pegasus is sold by NSO Group to governments to carry out surveillance through infecting phones with malicious software. The Israeli-based company has denied the allegations, saying they are false and could not have taken place. The Citizen Lab, which tracks electronic surveillance, said in 2020 and 2021 it notified the UK government that networks belonging to both 10 Downing Street and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office were suspected to have been infected using Pegasus spyware. Pegasus allows governments to take control of people's phones, extract data and carry out surveillance. NSO Group has always defended its use, saying it is only sold to selected governments for legitimate law enforcement and intelligence purposes, such as against criminals or terrorists.

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Prowler by David Buckley, in Sinclair Projects, Aug/Sep & Dec/Jan 1983. Prowler is a low-cost, expandable micro robot vehicle, controlled by a host computer. "So far the available robotic add-ons have needed either complex software to interface them to a home computer or have been too costly, or too big. The BBC Buggy costs more than £100 and even Zeaker, the latest of the add-ons, costs slightly more than £50. Projects Prowler in its first stage of development should cost about £20. Prowler consists of a converted remote-controlled s-scale tank kit, with a circuit board holding some electronics to control the motors, lights, horn and later some bump sensors." – Prowler control adds movement to the ZX81, Sinclair Projects

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Today's compilation:

Siglo 21 3.0 2000 Downtempo / House / Alternative Pop / Trip Hop / Big Beat

Siglo 21 was a radio program that mostly specialized in contemporary electronic music and ran for about 25 years on Spanish national station Radio 3, beginning in 1996 and airing its final show in 2021. They seemed to play a blend of accessible major label-backed alt-popular stuff (think The Prodigy, Moby, Air, Massive Attack, etc.) along with both Spanish-made and Spanish-language music that fit their own scope as well. Plus, there was also a corresponding Siglo 21 compilation series that was launched by Virgin in '97 too, and this release from 2000 that I listened to today is the third installment from that series.

So, largely, what we have here is a pretty nice and eclectic slate of alt-electronic and dance tunes from the turn of the millennium that seems to reflect what the sound of the Siglo 21 show was back then. We've got alt-poppy darlings Goldfrapp, French club and lounge legend St Germain, worldly downtempo wardens Thievery Corporation, and the we-eat-nails-for-breakfast acid-breakbeat-industrial-techno duo of The Chemical Brothers, whose "Out of Control" features Bernard Sumner of New Order on vocals and has a definite 80s New Order touch throughout most of it too.

But in addition to a bunch of those alt-electronic household names who were being marketed successfully across multiple continents at the time, we also have some of that very cool Spanish and Spanish-language stuff that didn't really make many inroads in the more culturally dominant English-speaking parts of the world too; like a dope hip hop banger from Spain's own Mala Rodriguez called "Tengo un trato" that served as her own debut single; and something from Mexican alt rock-electronic duo Plastilina Mosh, whose "Human Disco Ball" makes for a fun and quirky piece of talkboxed-and-vocodered bass-zappy electro-house.

So, overall, a quality release here that seems to represent what Siglo 21 was once all about. A whole bunch of this album passes for something that you probably would've been more likely to hear from the BBC than anywhere else, but the infusion of Spanish music certainly helps to give this thing its own unique and distinguishing features, thus making for something that's thankfully not just primarily comprised of your typical y2k-era alt-electronic staples 🙏.

Highlights:

Goldfrapp - "Lovely Head" Hooverphonic - "Mad About You" St. Germain - "What Do You Think About..." Autour de Lucie - "Je Reviens" Thievery Corporation - "The Mirror Conspiracy" Utah Saints - "Lost Vaguness" Mala Rodriguez - 'Tengo un trato" Plastillina Mosh - "Human Disco Ball" Bentley Rhythm Ace - "Theme from Gutbuster" The Chemical Brothers - "Out of Control" Playgroup - "Make It Happen (Extended Dub)" [unlisted bonus track]

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VA - The Stone Tape - Analysing A Ghost By Electronic Means - from Hidden Britain Tapes

Christmas Day 2022 marked 50 years since the original broadcast of the ground-breaking BBC supernatural thriller, 'The Stone Tape', written by Nigel Kneale. In early 2023 Hidden Britain commissioned a group of UK based musicians to produce a new piece of work inspired by this extraordinary 1972 TV film. The result is a 16 track tape compilation which blends reimagined theme tunes and Radiophonic incidental motifs with dark ambience and hauntological synth explorations. The artists involved in this release come from some of the finest electronic and experimental labels currently operating in the UK, such as Wayside & Woodland, Clay Pipe, Castles in Space & Spun Out Of Control.

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Tuesday, Aug 20, 2024. Episode #1413 of 🎨#JamieRoxx’s www.PopRoxxRadio.com 🎙️#TalkShow and 🎧#Podcast w/ Featured Guests:

Beautiful Machines ​​( #Synthwave, #Synthpop, #Dreampop, #Electropop )

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Step into the future with "#Angelica" – an epic synthwave masterpiece dropping on August 2nd. With an extensive synth solo and a narrative that explores AI and consciousness, this track is not just music; it's an experience.

Like something from a Ridley Scott movie, with lush moody vocals, epic guitar sounds, and big analog synthesizers, Beautiful Machines blends cinematic synthwave, postrock and synth-pop for a visual and sound reminiscent of M83 meets Blade Runner or Depeche Mode meets Stranger Things. With echoes of retro-futurism and flashes of AI-integrated art, the group is painting a picture of an era that does not yet exist.

After receiving an Independent Music Award for their debut album, the band’s follow up release Real Love caught the attention of Nylon saying "The band has a truly magnanimous sound that is as much a nod to the past as it is a reflection of the musical ingenuity of today." Recent release 2022 Control featured the band working alongside producer Ade Fenton (Gary Numan), was spun on BBC Radio 6, subsequently remixed by The New Division and had a video premiere in Clash Magazine describing the band “Gazing into the future, the group’s synth-enabled alt-pop is like mainlining a William Gibson novel, absorbing new ideas at every turn.”

Beautiful Machines supported OMD on tour in Germany 2022, performed at Infest 2022 in the UK, and headlined Rock the Planet 2022 a Space Party in Paris. The band has previously toured from North and Central America to Europe and Asia, with some notable performances at Northern Nights Music Festival, Island Life Festival, SXSW, UMS Festival, Boom Festival, Burning Man, and recently supporting Kraftwerk’s Wolfgang Flür. Each show is an unexpectedly emotional and curated multimedia experience. Beautiful Machines is Conrad Schuman (vocals, guitar, synths) and Stefanie Ku (Synths, backing vocals), and joined for live performances by Ralf Schumacher (electronic drums).

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Google's latest policy change, allowing "fingerprinting" to track users online, has drawn sharp criticism from privacy advocates. Starting Sunday, advertisers can collect detailed data like IP addresses and device information, which critics say undermines user privacy. Google claims this data is already widely used and insists it promotes responsible data practices. However, the move contradicts its 2019 stance against fingerprinting, calling it "wrong."

Privacy campaigners argue fingerprinting strips users of control, as it’s harder to opt out compared to cookies. Mozilla’s Martin Thomson called it "a form of tracking people can’t stop," while the Electronic Frontier Foundation accused Google of prioritizing profits over privacy. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office labeled the change "irresponsible," warning it reduces user choice.

Google defends the shift, citing evolving internet use and the need for better ad targeting. The company says it remains committed to user choice and privacy, but critics fear this opens the door to broader surveillance and data exploitation.

Source: BBC

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Lord almighty!” a middle-aged Welsh woman says in the first episode of Michael Sheen’s steelworks drama The Way (BBC1, Mon). “Isn’t the deal meant to be that we’re hit with just one crisis per generation? Like a war, or a crash, or a pandemic? My daughter … she’s had one of each!”

Now I hate to be pedantic, but I’m not sure that one crisis per generation ever was the deal, cosmologically speaking. “Sorry,” the Great Fire of London didn’t say to the Bubonic Plague. “I’ll just let you finish up.”

Still, you can see the point she is trying to make. Climate emergency, AI apocalypse, far-right lurch: it is a bit crisisy out there, isn’t it? It’s not hard to see why an ambitious TV writer might feel an urge — a calling, even — to try to make sense of a world that seems to be spinning out of control.

Just look at the TV schedules this week as The Way went head to head with ITV’s medical drama Breathtaking, which offered the delightful prospect of reminding everyone just how bleak the Covid-19 crisis was.

The Way is centred on the Port Talbot steelworks, which is so crisis-ridden there’s literally a crisis there right now. But such hyper-topicality is double-edged. For viewers actually living through this stuff you can see why, say, dogs getting cute haircuts on Instagram might be more enticing.

Still, this three-part series about a workers’ uprising has a dream team feel. It’s Sheen’s directorial debut (he also stars as the ghost of a coalminer). The script comes from James “State of the Nation” Graham, and the maverick documentary maker Adam Curtis completes what Sheen has described as an “Avengers assemble” line-up.

The Way makes much of Port Talbot’s dramatic skyline, as well as its status as a last bastion of industrial power. We have steelworkers falling into vats of molten slag, foreign owners indifferent to local communities, smatterings of Welsh folklore, and the rather good line “The British don’t revolt, they grumble”. Curtis’s influence is immediately apparent in the ominous electronic soundtrack, the flickery archive footage and a sinister pouting penguin that on closer inspection appears to be a bin. Perhaps the most Adam Curtis bin ever.

At its centre is the Driscoll family, estranged parents and warring adult kids who find themselves pursued by the British Army through Afan Forest Park, having become accidental revolutionaries. It might be the volume of drugs ingested by Owen Driscoll (Callum Scott Howells), but things escalate fast. The mood shifts from portentous to hysterical to OK this is really quite silly now. The result is Gavin & Stacey meets The Road: a misfit family of Welsh fugitives on the run in a hostile England where suddenly — inexplicably — the merest hint of a Welsh accent is enough to have you lynched by private security forces. I don’t know, I missed Uncle Bryn.

We’re supposed to find the family endearing, maybe even amusing, but honestly there were more laughs in Curtis’s seven-hour dissection of the fall of the Soviet Union. Overall it reminded me of children’s TV dramas from the 1980s. Was it the archival footage? The ancient sword? Or maybe just the hammy crowd scenes? It’s a strange project for Sheen, Graham and Curtis, who have all excelled at verbatim dramas or documentaries that hew close to the facts. The best thing that I can say about The Way is that it’s reassuring that something this eccentric can still make it to screen. Better a mad human mess than more algorithmic mush.

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Which leads us to The Baftas (BBC1, Sun). By strange coincidence last week’s award ceremony was also overshadowed by a Michael Sheen joke that overstayed its welcome. The show’s opening skit was an excruciatingly long prerecorded bit in which this year’s presenter, David Tennant, tried to wriggle out of dog-sitting Sheen’s pup, Bark Ruffalo. Little wonder a bemused Claire Foy described the event as “very LA”.

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French ID scheme likely to be extendedFrench day trippers can use their National ID card to visit the Channel Islands under the scheme that began in 2023Guernsey's next government is likely to extend a scheme that allows French day trippers to visit the island using a national ID card rather than a passport.The scheme was introduced in 2023 in response to declining tourism numbers from the continent.Doubt was cast over its future when the UK introduced an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) system which requires anyone who is not a British or Irish citizen to get the permit, which is linked to a passport, before entering the country.The Guernsey Border Agency (GBA) told the BBC the extension was due to be approved on the condition that Guernsey's membership in the Common Travel Area (CTA) was not at risk."GBA Officers have been in contact with the UK to discussthe matter from a Bailiwick of Guernsey perspective, and will continue to work with UK counterparts around the introduction of ETAs," it said.The CTA is a free movement agreement between the UK, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey.A final decision is yet to be made on extending the scheme, which will be down to the next committee - due to be voted in following the general election next week.The GBA said that any changes to immigration laws must be approved by the island's lieutenant-governor. Jersey's government extended the scheme there, with ministers saying UK counterparts were not supportive of it continuing.Shadow home secretary Chris Philp criticised the scheme after politicians in Jersey voted unanimously to extend the day trip scheme there, despite the upcoming introduction of the ETA travel permit in the Channel Islands.He said it risked opening a "dangerous backdoor" into the UK.Larry Malcic, chair of the Victor Hugo Centre, said the use of passports was still a "fairly modern thing"."Before the First World War people used to travel freely from France to Guernsey and, in fact, there was as much travel and trade with France than there was with the UK," he said."Yes, in modern times you need a passport and you need passport control, but people coming for the day for a good time in Guernsey are not the people who really need to be taken care of."I think the fact that the UK are concerned about this, [shows] that sometimes Guernsey has to act in its own interests."Larry Malcic said passports were a "fairly modern" thingFollow BBC Guernsey on X and Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to channel.islands@bbc.co.uk.

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Smart Home Devices in the UK:

1.Smart Home Devices in the UK:

In today’s fast-paced digital world, smart home devices have become an essential part of modern living. Whether it's voice-activated assistants, smart thermostats, or security systems, UK households are increasingly adopting these technologies to enhance convenience, improve energy efficiency, and strengthen home security. This guide explores the most popular smart home devices in the UK, their benefits, and how you can create a connected, intelligent living space.

What Are Smart Home Devices?

Smart home devices are electronic gadgets connected to your home’s Wi-Fi network that can be controlled remotely via smartphones, tablets, or voice assistants. These devices often use artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and IoT (Internet of Things) technology to automate and optimize your living environment.

In the UK, the demand for smart home devices has grown significantly, with millions of households investing in technology that improves comfort, convenience, and safety

1.  Why UK Households Are Embracing Smart Technology

The rise in remote working, increased energy costs, and the need for enhanced home security have driven the growth of smart home devices in the UK. According to Statista, nearly 50% of UK households are expected to own at least one smart home device by the end of 2025.

Key reasons for this surge include:

Energy efficiency: Smart thermostats and lighting help reduce energy consumption.

Convenience: Voice assistants and automation simplify daily tasks.

Security: Smart cameras and doorbells enhance home safety.

Remote access: Control your home from anywhere via smartphone apps.

Top Smart Home Devices in the UK

1. Smart Speakers and Voice Assistants

Smart speakers are the gateway to any smart home setup. Devices like the Amazon Echo (with Alexa), Google Nest Audio, and Apple HomePod allow users to control compatible devices, play music, set reminders, and even order groceries—all using voice commands.

Popular features:

Voice control for smart devices

Weather updates and news

Integration with streaming services like Spotify and BBC Sounds

2. Smart Thermostats

With energy bills on the rise in the UK, smart thermostats like Nest Learning Thermostat, Hive Active Heating, and Tado have become increasingly popular. These devices learn your heating habits, optimize schedules, and can be controlled remotely.

Benefits:

Reduce heating bills by up to 30%

Zone heating for better control

Compatible with most UK boiler systems

3. Smart Lighting

Smart lighting systems offer more than just on/off control. With products from Philips Hue, TP-Link Kasa, and LIFX, you can adjust brightness, color, and even set schedules or routines.

Advantages:

Enhance ambiance and mood

Save electricity with automation

Voice and app control

4. Smart Plugs and Sockets

Smart plugs such as Amazon Smart Plug, TP-Link Kasa, and Eve Energy allow you to convert standard appliances into smart devices. Simply plug them in and control them via your phone or voice assistant.

Great for:

Automating coffee machines, lamps, or kettles

Tracking energy usage

Remote control when you're away

5. Smart Security Systems

Safety is a major concern for UK homeowners. Smart security products such as Ring VideoDoorbells, Arlo Pro Cameras, and Yale Smart Locks offer peace of mind with real-time monitoring and instant alerts.

Key features:

Motion detection and night vision

Two-way audio

Integration with Alexa or Google Assistant

6. Smart Home Hubs

While many devices now work independently, smart hubs like Samsung SmartThings, Amazon Echo Show, or Apple HomeKit offer centralized control of your ecosystem.

Benefits:

Unified control of multiple brands

Better automation routines

Enhanced compatibility

2.  How to Build a Smart Home Ecosystem in the UK

Step 1: Choose a Smart Home Platform

Before buying individual devices, choose your preferred platform: Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, or Apple HomeKit. Each ecosystem offers unique integrations and compatibility.

Amazon Alexa: Wide device support, especially in the UK market

Google Assistant: Excellent search and voice recognition

Apple HomeKit: Best for Apple device users, with strong privacy controls

Step 2: Start with Core Devices

Begin with basic devices such as smart speakers, plugs, and lights. These are easy to install and provide immediate benefits.

Step 3: Expand with Security and Energy Devices

Once comfortable, consider adding thermostats, video doorbells, and security cameras. This adds value and safety to your home.

Step 4: Automate Your Routines

Use your platform’s app to create routines—like turning off lights at bedtime, adjusting heating schedules, or receiving alerts when someone’s at your door.

Smart Home Trends in the UK (2025 and beyond)

The smart home industry in the UK is poised for continued growth. Here are some key trends to watch:

AI-powered automation: Devices will become smarter at learning habits and routines.

Sustainability: Energy-saving and eco-friendly devices will become standard.

Voice-controlled everything: More appliances, from ovens to showers, will support voice control.

Home insurance integration: Smart security devices may influence insurance premiums.

Pros and Cons of Smart Home Devices

✅ Pros

Convenience and hands-free control

Improved energy efficiency

Enhanced home security

Customizable automation

Are Smart Home Devices Worth It in the UK?

For most UK households, investing in smart home technology is well worth it. Whether you're looking to save money on energy bills, improve home security, or simply enjoy the convenience

Final Thoughts

Smart home devices are revolutionizing the way UK residents live, making homes more secure, energy-efficient, and convenient. As technology evolves, adopting smart solutions is no longer a luxury but a practical choice for modern homeowners.

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UK 1987

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Sanctions Against Maduro Regime. Putin’s Damage to the Russian Budget. Ukrainian Prisoner Stories.

You are watching the news from the weekly rally at the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is January 11, 2:30 PM.

The Associated Press reported that on January 9, in Venezuela, opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was detained after a protest the day before Nicolas Maduro’s inauguration. She was later released, but according to her, repressive forces shot and killed a man during her detention. After the presidential elections, the opposition gathered 85% of data from electronic voting receipts, proving their victory. https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-election-inauguration-maduro-protests-edmundo-machado-db8a045f2614cb71022674dc6b73bd88

On January 10, the United States imposed sanctions on eight Venezuelan officials and increased the reward for information leading to Maduro's arrest on narcoterrorism charges to $25 million. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2778

On the same day, the United Kingdom announced sanctions targeting 15 judges and senior officials of the Maduro regime. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-announces-new-sanctions-targeting-nicolas-maduros-regime-in-venezuela

Canada imposed similar sanctions on 14 current and former senior Venezuelan government officials. https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2025/01/canada-imposes-new-sanctions-against-venezuelan-officials-involved-in-human-rights-violations.html

The Council of Europe also expanded its sanctions, adding 15 members of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council, judiciary, and security forces to its restrictive measures list. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/01/10/venezuela-council-renews-restrictive-measures-and-lists-a-further-15-individuals-in-view-of-the-situation-in-the-country/

The United States has also taken action against Russia’s energy sector. Sanctions imposed on January 10 targeted oil companies, liquefied natural gas infrastructure, marine insurance firms, and 183 tankers identified as part of the "shadow fleet." https://ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actions/20250110

According to the BBC Russian Service, oil and gas sales accounted for one-third of Russia’s budget revenue as of November 2024. https://www.bbc.com/russian/articles/cnvqyegvpl2o

On January 9, oil and gas analyst Mikhail Krutikhin discussed on The Breakfast Show the economic damage caused by Putin’s policies. He explained that gas exports to China are priced below the cost of production and transportation, failing to recoup even the expenses of constructing the "Power of Siberia" pipeline. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N0OcDUJ3bs&t=3851s

Last summer, Texty.org.ua investigated Vyazemskoye Pre-Trial Detention Center #2, one of the sites where Ukrainian prisoners are tortured. Olexander Gritsyuk’s wife described the condition of his body upon its return from Russian captivity: “His head was completely blue, his nose was crooked, and his index fingers had no nails.” Vitaly Klochenko’s sister recalled, “There was almost nothing left of him; even his bones had dried up.” Alexei Kretsu, released from captivity, returned with tuberculosis and hepatitis B, having lost half of his teeth during interrogations. https://texty.org.ua/articles/112776/konctabir-smerti-vyazemske-sizo2/

The "I Want to Live" project shared harrowing photos of Roman Gorilyk, a senior controller at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant security checkpoint, following two years in Russian captivity. https://t.me/hochu_zhyt/1580

On September 23, a UN commission on Ukraine highlighted the coordinated use of personnel from specific Russian agencies in acts of torture. The commission also noted that attacks on energy infrastructure are impacting millions of civilians. https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2024/09/update-chair-independent-international-commission-inquiry-ukraine

Support the €100,000 fundraiser for portable power stations for Ukrainian hospitals and schools. https://antiwarcommittee.info/en/energy-for-life/

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December 03, 2024

Mirror Action - China To Block 'Dual Use' Exports To U.S. War Mongers

During its Ukrainian proxy war on Russia the Biden administration and its minions have pushed China for allegedly providing support to  Russia. This year it even started to sanction Chinese companies for allegedly providing 'dual-use items' to Russian businesses.

Ukraine war: Biden tells China's Xi of 'consequences' if Beijing gives Russia material support for invasion - Sky News, March 18 2022

Blinken says China helping fuel Russian threat to Ukraine - BBC, Apr 26 2024

U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Chinese Companies for Aiding Russia’s War Effort - New York Times, May 1 2024

China should pay for propping up Putin's war - Nato chief - BBC, June 17 2024

Germany’s Baerbock urges China not to support Russia’s war against Ukraine - Anadolu, Dec 2 2024

The sanctions game though can be reversed. China has several quasi monopoly positions which it can use to hit back.

In (probably) a reply to Baerbock's latest intervention, it just started to use these (machine translation):

Announcement of the Ministry of Commerce No. 46 of 2024 on strengthening export controls on Related Dual-use items to the United States - mofcom.cn, Dec 3 2024

In accordance with the relevant provisions of laws and regulations such as the "Export Control Law of the People's Republic of China", in order to safeguard national security and interests and fulfill international obligations such as non-proliferation, it has been decided to strengthen export controls on related dual-use items to the United States. The relevant matters are now announced as follows： Organizations and individuals in any country or region that violate the above regulations and transfer or provide related dual-use items originating in the People's Republic of China to organizations and individuals in the United States will be investigated for legal responsibility in accordance with the law.

Gallium, germanium, antimony and superhard materials are important for chip making in electronics industries and for weapon manufacturers. Graphite is necessary to make rechargeable batteries.

These commodity items are not necessarily rare but China has plenty of them and, more importantly, is nearly the only country which processes them in large quantities. The reason is that the processes to do refine the raw materials are somewhat dirty and only profitable when done on scale.

The U.S. can, and probably will, (re-)build the industries to do the processing for such items. But it will cost it lots of money and, more importantly, years to achieve that.

It will also be difficult to criticize China for fulfilling its 'international obligations such as non-proliferation' while that is a main attack point the U.S. has used against China.

But be assured that the hypocrites, like Mrs. Baerbock, will anyway try to do so.

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#1149 What is pirate radio?

What is pirate radio? A pirate radio station is a radio station that broadcasts a signal in an area controlled by a government without having a license from that government. Pirate radio stations began in the 1940s, but they probably hit their peak in the 1960s. They brought music and attitudes to the multitudes that were not allowed on the government-controlled radio networks. They fueled, and were fueled by, the changing attitudes in society that were becoming predominant after World War 2. Most of the pirate radio stations and most of the DJs who broadcast on them went on to become mainstream broadcasters, but that wouldn’t have happened without the influence of the pirate radio stations. The need for pirate radio stations came about because the governments of countries controlled all of the airwaves and could shut them down whenever they wished. This control started pretty much as soon as public broadcasting became a thing. Radio waves were first discovered in the 1880s by Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. Ten years later, Guglielmo Marconi had worked out how to send electronic signals over radio waves. This allowed wireless communication over distances of up to 50 km. He could only send Morse code, but in 1900, a Canadian called Reginald A. Fessenden worked out how to send voices over radio waves and he sent the first audio radio waves. Radio broadcasting rapidly improved from there. In the early days, most of the people sending radio signals and building detectors did it as a hobby. But pretty, soon the governments arrived to take control and they nationalized the air frequencies. The main reason for that was defense. The navy in the UK and in the USA very quickly realized the possibilities of radio signaling. Radios were still far to big to be used by the army, but it would be possible to build a transmitter and a receiver on a ship. Being able to transmit signals to another ship over distance would give that navy a huge advantage. The problem was, because the airwaves weren’t regulated, anybody with a homebuilt radio transmitter could transmit on any frequency and thus get in the way of naval transmissions. For this reason, before and during World War 1, civilians were forbidden from transmitting on a frequency without a license. After the war, the necessity of keeping the airwaves free for the military lessened, but there was still a need to parcel out the frequencies because you couldn’t have two radio broadcasters using the same frequencies. These licenses weren’t easy to get but the number of radio stations grew, more so in the USA than in the UK due to its sheer size. Radio in the UK was a monopoly controlled by the BBC until the 1950s. The BBC was technically free of government control, but it was still forced to answer to the government and that meant it was not allowed to play a lot of modern or risqué music. This wasn’t considered a problem until society began to change when the children born after World War 2 started to grow up. In the USA as well, radio stations were not really allowed to play a lot of songs, and frustration built up. This frustration led to the first pirate radio stations in the 1960s. Throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s, there were many new musical genres appearing and a lot of these songs, the singers, and the types of music were thought to be anti-establishment or bad for the youth. That meant radios wouldn’t play them. As with any industry, if there is a need for a product, somebody will step up to supply that product. And that is what pirate radio stations did. They set up radio stations outside the jurisdiction of the country they were broadcasting to and started their own radio programs. There were two ways that pirate radio stations operated. The first was by setting up in a neutral country and broadcasting a signal that could be picked up in the home country. An example of this is Radio Luxembourg. The radio station was obviously based in the country of Luxembourg, which is a small country between Belgium, France, and Germany. It broadcast in English and the signal could be picked up in the UK. They played songs that DJs in the UK were not permitted to play and the station became very popular. The second way was by setting up the radio station on a ship. Several radio stations did this. One example is Radio Caroline, which was set up on a ship in international waters, just far enough outside the UK’s waters to be safe. Then they broadcast a signal into the UK. The UK government couldn’t do anything about the ships because they were in international waters. The USA has a similar situation. Some radio stations broadcast from boats just inside international waters and Mexico, on the southern border of the USA, broadcast a signal that was strong enough to be picked up in America.  The UK tried to stop the pirate radio stations by making listening to unauthorized pirate radio stations illegal, but nobody was ever prosecuted for it. Many of the DJs that worked at these pirate radio stations became very famous and after the main radio stations became less constricted, many of them moved to mainland radio. And this is what I learned today. - #138 Did pirates really use the Jolly Roger flag? - #470 When was the first subway built? - #239 Why are signals from intelligent life so hard to hear? - #1074 What causes acid rain? - #1002 What is the difference between AM and FM radio? 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